Opinion: Colombia’s Santos Has Hopes at FARC Talks

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... I ... still what some of the world's nastiest girl is the present Colombia's bout find out Mary Anastasia O'Grady are America's calm assertive tells about the ... a presence on toes in Colombia with the of ... that ensures there is to give gold a high risk mission of the for the very nasty left-wing ... narco terrorists that's an apple tree in the ... description ... have been nom ... ravaging its country for years um um and offensive though recently his predecessor of ... the President or read a obviously made great progress but now Mr. Son toes says he wants to put an end of this long warfare body of ... striking a peace deal with these ... for Eliza's as possible ... write well ... aam presence on phones has banned Morales at the negotiating table at least I since last September probably go on ... for a longer period time that we found out about it last September ... I'm and they've just returned to the peace table and head downtown which is where the holding costs ... I flew ... as a kind of that vision and dream about a con be at peace ... and he's been said that he's willing to take the suicide it did a telephone interview with him a couple weeks ago ... and he explained to me that I'm you know despite all of the iam landmines ... I'll post cicadas ... and lateral ... better there ... he ... thinks it's a risk worth taking any still plugging away at it ... police are with the location our ... jokes about the time ago to tough negotiations where they're ... debating the size of the conference table but to ... be ... going to Havana Cuba but I'm not what you'd call a neutral site I mean is this Sunday it does show weakness or maybe a unopened ... good faith effort to reach an agreement here well I think that's part of why a ... presence on coasts has a good number of critics and on Columbia who say that down perhaps he's extending the olive branch to far ... to the park ... um I think his position would be blocked ... I and what he told me on the phone is look for some always had fifty years of dance ... and I think that it's my obligation to um ... you know pursue any kind of a possible peace ... and secondly that my dream and of Columbia and pieces something that's so and tidy saying ... that I really have to make a try ... for it ... and he was then I he remains ... a very ... clear ... that in for example there won't be any impunity for ... the people who have committed war crimes that would be punished under say international standard its right ... aam and silly saying and I'm getting off their he's going to confiscate land that the Pentagon claims he's going to ... um ... get within reach is that they've accumulated in banks if ... the international banks will help and in awe so he's not giving them any kind of breaks down ... what he sang as well ... the piece has never been achieved in any kind of a conflict like this without some kind of give and take it there's a balance between peace and justice now former prisoner a day says ... then you're giving away the store ... brand he's saying now I'm yet to find a place that is ... beginning to mass fees but will deliver justice ... and he says the check on that is that any any agreement will go before ... it caught me in public they'll be a referendum to vote and as to whether ... I'm issued be approved ... I think what were worried what his worry we should be right now is whether they'll even get that far ... the isthe Park's showing a lot of signs of not wanting to cooperate ... last question I guess would be what is the what is the downside and I think this would be during that meeting that he would they gotta go with a lot of people saying oh why not discusses why not talk to ... us see if there's something here ... well I mean the downside is that I it's a waste of time that they're putting on a show that they're using it to buy time in our new to you know build up their top ... five there for their forces again which weren't defeated badly under present in rebate and there some signs that they may be doing that you know that they're using this kind of has a ... of a publicity stunt ... read and while most of the Colombian people have ... them come to think of the fire will is a gangster organization they wanted trying to revive their in and ... as a group that has a political and ... and so that's why they're doing these kinds of they are trying to use the peace talks as a way to raise their image and their profile as political actors who want social justice and I think that's the risk that ... the present is taking but he eyes he told me on the phone ... that's a risk worth taking because Colombia has suffered so much and is it a chance for peace ... he should go after him move will see if they can bring them into politics away from work or reading or ... thinking ...